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Wow. I'm just sayin'. Wow

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=M7mr7CK7zEk [/youtube]

If I tried that, she would be my EX-wife. LOL

Was trying to tell how old that film was by the clothing and hair styles. I am guessing mid to late 1930's.

Edit to add: Found it on the original site efootage.com; 1931.

That's unbelievable!

Chas.

You have got to be kidding me!!!!

It reminds me of the Second Chance body armor demonstrations by Richard Davis

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=5y44CdrBsfs[/youtube]

From 1931, this could very well have been the husband and wife team of Ad and Pinky Topperwein, exhibition shooters for Winchester.

Oh my!

How many rules were violated in that short clip?

I don't think they concerned themselves with rules as they shot cigarettes out of their mouths and pennies pinched between thumb and forefinger.

That gives me the willies. It's just plain wrong.

Mike1951 wrote: From 1931, this could very well have been the husband and wife team of Ad and Pinky Topperwein, exhibition shooters for Winchester.

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I don't think they concerned themselves with rules as they shot cigarettes out of their mouths and pennies pinched between thumb and forefinger.

That is not the Topperweins in the video.

Mrs. Topperwein's nickname was PLINKY with an L.
She got it while shooting tin cans with a .22 and saying she heard them "plink".

Plinky was a shooter on a par with the more famous Annie Oakley.
She is in the Trap Shooting Hall of Fame.

There is no evidence that they engaged in unsafe gun handling such as shooting cigarettes
out of their mouths or pennies pinched etc.

They lived in San Antonio and their exhibitions primarily consisted of shooting aerial targets (2" square wooden blocks) and making drawings on sheet metal with a Winchester .22 Autoloader.

She is NOT smilin.........

TxD wrote:There is no evidence that they engaged in unsafe gun handling such as shooting cigarettes
out of their mouths or pennies pinched etc.

On History Channel Intl's Sharp Shooters episode, I just watched her shoot either a cigarette or piece of chalk out of Ad's mouth with a rifle. Whatever it was, it disintegrated.

I figured it would air again if I waited long enough.

That's one lucky lady. Penetration almost certainly would have occurred if a round had hit a previously damaged portion of the pane.

I did not know that. It explains the name of the street close to where I live. I have wandered for a while how that name would come to be a street. Just thought it came from the German influence here, not that it could be named after a family of shooters. That's cool!

TxD wrote:

Mike1951 wrote: From 1931, this could very well have been the husband and wife team of Ad and Pinky Topperwein, exhibition shooters for Winchester.

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I don't think they concerned themselves with rules as they shot cigarettes out of their mouths and pennies pinched between thumb and forefinger.

That is not the Topperweins in the video.

Mrs. Topperwein's nickname was PLINKY with an L.
She got it while shooting tin cans with a .22 and saying she heard them "plink".

Plinky was a shooter on a par with the more famous Annie Oakley.
She is in the Trap Shooting Hall of Fame.

There is no evidence that they engaged in unsafe gun handling such as shooting cigarettes
out of their mouths or pennies pinched etc.

They lived in San Antonio and their exhibitions primarily consisted of shooting aerial targets (2" square wooden blocks) and making drawings on sheet metal with a Winchester .22 Autoloader.

Originally it was Toepperwein with and extra "e". But at times they "Americanized" it to Topperwein. Yep, that'll do it.